And it's no secret that the founding fathers viewed America as a sort of new Rome and thus borrowed their architecture as an inspiration for our own. I think some people start going down the rabbit hole, learn that we've been lied to all of our lives and then start concluding everything is therefore a conspiracy where a more simple explanation suffices.

And it's no secret that the founding fathers viewed America as a sort of new Rome and thus borrowed their architecture as an inspiration for our own. I think some people start going down the rabbit hole and start concluding everything is therefore a conspiracy where a more simple explanation suffices.